Quotes About Avant-garde

Everyone who watches Adult Swim knows there's a sound to it, a feeling that's nostalgic sometimes, but then it's also different and outside the box.

If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say 'No Wave,' it's kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it... here's this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike.

You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.

I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.

When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.

To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me.

I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years.

For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.

A Schiaparelli woman is not about cliche.

I'm not commercial, I'm not for Special K cereal and I'm not a Wheaties boy; I'm a little bit more avant-garde, a little bit more out there.

No one has the Houdini school of composition.

I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.

In Europe the world of fashion is too conservative, very eighties.

Conservative's the last thing I am.

I was always excited about doing things with people that were ahead of their time, that were sort of out of sync with the rest of society.

With a play, when the curtain goes up and people are in garbage cans, I know I may admire the idea cerebrally, but it won't mean as much to me. I've seen Beckett, along with many lesser avant-gardists, and many contemporary plays, and I can say yes, that's clever and deep but I don't really care. But when I watch Chekhov or O'Neill--where it's men and women in human, classic crises--that I like.

The Avant Gardener feeds flowers to his manure and charges prices he believes are not to be sniffed at

The avant-garde no longer simply attempts, as it always must, to carry out transformations within an inherited medium; it claims it is creating a medium of its own, sometimes retaining the old name of theatre, sometimes preferring others: spectacle, show, performance.

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting-Marcel Duchamp

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.

In my head, I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, 'Damn, that's a pop song!' I can practice in front of the mirror with my hairbrush for as long as I want to. But when it finally comes out, it sounds avant-garde to people.